tOfficial Wild Card round thread

Big Al Rogorson said:
Wrong. In 1995 when the wild card was introduced, the one & only wild card played the best record in the league in a best of 5. That stupid 1 game nonsense came much later.
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Yeah, you're right about that, I fucked up the games. I remember them being the 5-game series, but what I meant to say is that it put a wild card team on equal footing with a division winner. That's not perfect. It's not even good.

The 1-game WC format was the best of the lot. I'm sorry you're stupid.
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
Yeah, you're right about that, I fucked up the games. I remember them being the 5-game series, but what I meant to say is that it put a wild card team on equal footing with a division winner. That's not perfect. It's not even good.

The 1-game WC format was the best of the lot. I'm sorry you're stupid.
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He’s not right either, Wild Card team didn’t necessarily play the top seed. There was a rule that prohibited division opponents from meeting in the DS for a good while there, so a lot of years, the top seed was given a division winner while the 2 seed played the wild card winner.

Which was stupid
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Before 1969, there was just a World Series. Have the best record in the league or stay home. Personally, I’d be fine with that this year.
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And every team in the league played every other team the exact same amount of times.

No one could say "you had more wins because your schedule was easier."
 
Bring Back The Oilers said:
not as stupid as the Mets going to the World Series in 1973 with a record of 82-79.
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Cardinals did the same thing in 2006. Twins won the World Series with a negative run differential in 1987.

If the top teams don’t show up in the playoffs, bitch at them for not handling business when it matters.

What was stupid is teams like the 93 Giants winning 103 games and missing the playoffs entirely because for some reason the Atlanta Braves were in the NL West
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
He’s not right either, Wild Card team didn’t necessarily play the top seed. There was a rule that prohibited division opponents from meeting in the DS for a good while there, so a lot of years, the top seed was given a division winner while the 2 seed played the wild card winner.

Which was stupid
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That happened a few time with the Red Sox/Yankees.

In fact, I had tickets to see the Yankees vs Red Sox last game of the season, and as we drew closer, the tickets' value kept going up because it looked like the series was going to decide the division (which I think it did, but can't remember), but as we got really close, both teams were phoning it in because they both locked in a playoff berth and didn't care too much about the division.
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
That happened a few time with the Red Sox/Yankees.

In fact, I had tickets to see the Yankees vs Red Sox last game of the season, and as we drew closer, the tickets' value kept going up because it looked like the series was going to decide the division (which I think it did, but can't remember), but as we got really close, both teams were phoning it in because they both locked in a playoff berth and didn't care too much about the division.
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The Twins were forced to face the Yankees numerous times because of that rule, and no team owns another like the Yankees own the Twins in the playoffs
 
Well the espn coverage of this game is about how i expected.
 
shit, when did they go back to being the devil rays?
 
Man, I typically like McDonough, but baseball just isn't his calling card. These announcers really just suck. Constantly making claims that just aren't true or barely even paying attention to the game. Looks like I'll be putting it on mute. Oh well.
 
Rays been playing little league defense all game
 
Tampa's still got time to get right, but this is bad baseball.
 
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